Foundation paints

[Mooseh]

Originally posted by Bengoodall
Aaaaand another thing, working in a games workshop retail shop doesnt make you a professional.

It makes you a wanker.

:cussing:

Cheers for that. :~(

 

[Bengoodall]

Maybe I should have put that to be, expressing the fact that you work in a games workshop store doesnt make you a professional.

Its a bit like a used car salesman telling people hes a formula one driver.

Sure he can drive, but he aint gonna win any medals any time soon.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

Originally posted by Bengoodall
Maybe I should have put that to be, expressing the fact that you work in a games workshop store doesnt make you a professional.

Its a bit like a used car salesman telling people hes a formula one driver.

Sure he can drive, but he aint gonna win any medals any time soon.

Still an ignorant comment to make no matter how you try to dress it up

 

[noneedforaname]

at this point i will add in that generalpoleaxe once worked in a GW and is now indeed a professional painter and if you check out his gallery you will see he is certainly up to professional standard.

I too work for GW, i however am a wanker just ask generalpoleaxe

if used for what they are intended foundation paints help speed up painting and improve the finish for beginner and intermmediate level painters, as for what some of the painting gods on here use you will just have to ask them as im pretty sure they have all got there one little foibles and personal taste ( literally) when it comes to paints.

 

[generulpoleaxe]

the foundation paints are great for glazes, toning down those nasty vibrant colours and giving them a realist look.

looks like i\'m a wanker as well with being ex gw staff (3 times)

and mike, your not a wanker, you just tell people the truth, even when they can\'t handle it lol

 

[Roger Bunting]

I used a couple of the foundation paints the other day. They needed constant mixing as they separated quickly. It did have a nice two-tone effect in my water tub though.

 

[tomusannonymous]

i like them, they dry up pretty quickly though, and can sometimes be lumpy, but that can be fixed of course. the skin colour is really good, its a great base colour without too many coats... , the greys are good too

 

[EricJ]

I tried a bunch of these as well, and while they weren\'t bad paints, they weren\'t anything special either. I\'ve been using mainly P3 lately which seem to have all the advantages of the foundation paints, without a lot of the drawbacks already mentioned here. That said, I\'m keeping them around, as some of the colors make a nice addition to the palate

 

[hakoMike]

I\'ve been using the orchide shade (dark green), mechrite red (dark red) and tallarn flesh colors a lot lately. I haven\'t run into the separation, drying or lumpiness problems (although I have been using a little slow-dri to help with blending...)

The bottles are annoying... I\'ve started sitting the bottle on a file to tilt the bottle forward so the paint drips back in rather than down the back.

 

[Trevor]

I have to say that I think a lot of the \'problems\' people are encountering is because they behave rather differently to the usual gw paints.

I really like them. I spent a while getting the hang of them and now I\'m not having any troubles.

They do seperate when watered down, but I found it doesn\'t really affect the end colour at all, ie if you don;t mix it up again it doesn\'t really look any different.

They thin well and still cover great, takes a bit of getting used to how much to thin for any given use.

I\'ve had no problems mixing them with other paints and inks.

I like the orange for highlighting red, simply because it covers well, compared to trying to mix an orange with the translucent yellows you tend to get, in the same vein the yellows are good, although they are a bit brown, a nice vibrant yellow would have been nice.

But I think they are best suited to what they were designed for, basecoating with good coverage.